Custom cabinetry in Oshawa
Valmont designs, builds and installs custom cabinetry in Oshawa: kitchens, pantries, basement bars, closets and built-ins. The older stock near downtown and through the south end is where most of the interesting work sits. Those houses have small kitchens with a door on every wall, low basement ceilings, and window sills that land at counter height. A stock cabinet run cannot solve a room like that, because the standard sizes do not stop where the walls do.
Oshawa, on the ground.
Custom sizing is the whole point in a house like that. A 21 inch cabinet where a 24 would block a door. A shallow upper on the wall that carries the stair. A base run that steps down under a low window instead of colliding with it. North Oshawa is newer and the problem reverses: plenty of room, high ceilings, and the risk of a kitchen that looks unfinished because nothing in it reaches the top of the wall.
Every box, door and drawer front is cut, edged and finished in our own shop and dry-fitted before it ships. Kam draws the job and builds it. The crew measures, delivers and installs. You see elevations and a photorealistic 3D rendering at step two, and the quote after that is itemized line by line, so nothing is buried inside a single total you cannot take apart.
Cabinet sizes in older Oshawa houses are set by the walls and doorways rather than by standard widths.
Oshawa's older core has small kitchens, low basement ceilings and rooms with several doorways, while the north end is newer and larger.
Driveways are often short and streets near downtown can be narrow, so delivery is planned around where the truck can stop.
Kitchen replacements, pantries, basement bars and closet storage are the regular Oshawa jobs.
Kitchens, millwork and the rest of the house.
Also in Oshawa: Kitchen islands · Pantries · Fireplace surrounds · Walk-in closets · Banquettes · Home offices · Laundry rooms · Wet bars · Wardrobes
Asked before the first call.
Our kitchen is small and has three doorways. Is custom worth it?
That is the case where it pays most. Stock widths jump in fixed steps, so a small room loses inches at every stop. We size each cabinet to the wall it sits on, keep the door swings clear of each other and put drawers where a hinged door would foul a doorway. The rendering shows the swings.
Can you put a bar in a basement with a low ceiling?
Yes, with honest heights. We measure the finished ceiling at its lowest point, set the counter at a working height and keep anything overhead shallow so it does not catch your head. Where the ceiling is very low we drop the upper storage entirely and use a tall unit against an end wall instead.
What if you find something behind the old cabinets?
It happens in older houses: a pipe in the wall, a patch of missing plaster, a chase nobody knew about. We stop, photograph it and tell you what we found before carrying on. Anything that changes the scope is written up as a line and agreed before the work is done, not after.
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